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Part 1 of 3 in my series about why our bodies are shaped the way they are. Stay tuned for part 2 and 3 later this week! Make sure you head over BrainCraft and check out the rest of our collaboration!

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Still of that crazy face comes from FKA twigs' "Water Me":    • FKA twigs  Water Me  

Evolution of the nervous system: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutio...

Step by step along the evolutionary tree:
http://tolweb.org/Bilateria/2459
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilateria
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuteros...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protostome
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urochordata
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chordate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephaloc...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craniate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnathost...

Evolutionary timeline of vertebrates: http://www.utexas.edu/news/2008/03/03...

How old are Hox genes: http://www.nature.com/nrg/journal/v8/...
Hox genes in development: The Hox Code http://www.nature.com/scitable/topicp...

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